Forgiveness Quotes - Page 32

• Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

  Motivational, Peace, Healing

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• Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Beautiful, Sorry, Love You

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• It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

  Tori Spelling

  Giving Up, Mistake, Want

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• See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

  Barry Lyga

  Events, Process, Happens

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• I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Thinking, Forgiving

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Law, Individuality

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• God will pardon: That's His business.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pardon, Gods Will

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Heart, Men

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

  Seamus Heaney

  Revenge, Believe, Healing

  Speech by the President of USA to the People of Derry, cain.ulst.ac.uk. November 30, 1995.

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• We forgive but not forgotten

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiving, Forgotten

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• We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

  Alice Munro

  Forgiving, Never Forgive, Forgiven

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 09, 2013

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  John Dryden

  Adventure, Law, Forgiving

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

  Epictetus

  Revenge, Grace, Savages

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• If one by one we counted people out

  Robert Frost

  People, Ifs

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Forgiving, Sin

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• There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.

  Vladimir Jankelevitch

  Ends, Forgiven

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• Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Feel Better, Forgiving, Feels

  Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

  Alan Paton

  Moving On, Mistake, Past

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• We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven.
  Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our
  forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives,
  for in forgiving one another we act towards one another
  as He has acted towards us.

  Hannah More

  Jesus, Forgiving, Should

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• The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

  Caroline Myss

  Broken Heart, Letting Go, Past

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• It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. Ignatius
  If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mercy Of God, Omnipotence

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• However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

  May, Majesty, Sin

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• If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Peace, Hurt, Love Is

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.27, CLC Publications

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• Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Forgiving, Use, Forget

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